Show SHE GOT COMPOSERS MIXED Victorias Victoria's Error Must Have Cau Caused ed Mascagni to Pass an Uncomfortable Uncomfortable Uncomfortable Un Un- comfortable Few Minutes Sometimes w when n a great personage essays musical criticism embarrassing errors arise Once Queen Vi Victoria Invited Mascagni the composer composer of Ca to play for her herat nt at Windsor castle When the musician was at the piano her majesty said saidI I am passionately fond of one of the numbers of your opera Mascagni played the Intermezzo No said the queen that Is not the melody I mean Mascagni played the Prelude not it either Mascagni l pla played ed the dramatic Duet The queen became became- almost impatient Ill help you jou ou to remember it she said paid and hummed a few measures With increasing consternation Mascagni Mascagni Mas Mas- cagni listened as the queen sang the Prologue to Leoncavallo's I Le In telling the story does not say whether the musician informed inform inform- ed the queen that she had made a mistake Youths mistake Youths Youth's Companion Companio |